EPA’s Aaron Szabo Once Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Methane Rules — ProPublica

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group's 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc

 

Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules

Win for Memphis activists who say 'Colossus' facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis

 

‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?

"It was jaw-dropping," said Wilson, a former oil and gas worker from Texas who has documented methane releases for more than a decade and estimates xAI's Colossus datacentre was spewing more of the planet-heating gas than a large power plant. "Just an unbelievable amount of pollution."… 

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big-a-threat-is-ai-to-the-climate

Trump’s “Insane” New Energy Policy Would Put Global Warming on Steroids - Vanity Fair

The administration wants to make it easier for energy companies to leak methane—one of the most powerful greenhouse gases and a massive contributor to climate change. ....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/trumps-insane-new-energy-policy-would-put-global-warming-on-steroids

Methane Is a Terrible Green House Gas. Naturally Trump Wants to Release More of It - Mother Jones

The Environmental Protection Agency will soon propose plans to make it much easier for oil and gas companies to release methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere, according to a report Monday in the New York Times. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/09/methane-is-a-terrible-green-house-gas-naturally-trump-wants-to-release-more-of-it/

Here's Why Scott Pruitt Still Has a Job - Mother Jones

If EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt survives the onslaught of accusations of mismanagement and excessive spending with his job still safe, he has his biggest benefactors to thank. The #StandWithScottPruitt campaign has flooded the White House with pleas from Trump donors and conservative and industry-aligned groups to defend Pruitt....
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/04/heres-why-scott-pruitt-still-has-a-job/

Two states sue over Trump administration suspending a rule that would save taxpayers $330 million -- ThinkProgress.org

Attorneys general from California and New Mexico filed a lawsuit Wednesday over Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke's postponement of the Bureau of Land Management's methane waste prevention rule. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/ca-nm-sue-over-methane-rule-blm-91fbb67a9549

Court rejects EPA's attempt to halt Obama-era methane rule -- the guardian

Environmental Protection Agency had announced stay in rule that would require oil and gas companies to fix methane leaks in equipment ...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/03/epa-methane-rule-trump-scott-pruitt

7,000 massive methane gas bubbles under the Russian permafrost could explode anytime

Russian scientists have recently discovered some 7,000 underground methane bubbles in Siberia that could explode anytime.

‘Their appearance at such high latitudes is most likely linked to thawing permafrost,” explained a Russian Academy of Science spokesperson, “which is in turn linked to overall rise of temperature on the north of Eurasia during last several decades.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/methane-bubbles-arctic-769bf3f1b099